The UK IPv6 Council held its Annual Meeting on 5 December, 2017.
BT kindly hosted us at the BT Centre in London, and provided excellent refreshments. Over 100 people attended the meeting.
The agenda covered a broad spectrum of topics and speakers:
09:30 – 10:00 – Arrivals and registration (tea and coffee)
10:00 – 10:15 – Welcome and UK IPv6 Council Status update (Veronika McKillop, President of UK IPv6 Council) [slides] [video]
10:15 – 11:15 – UK ISP and Content Provider Updates
BT and EE (Neil McRae, Nick Heatley) [slides], Andrews and Arnold (Adrian Kennard) [slides], and the BBC (Andrew Hutson, Craig Taylor) [slides] [combined video]
11:15 – 11:25 – Jim Bound Awards [slides] [video]
11:25 – 11:45 – The Importance of IPv6 for 5G (Prof Mischa Dohler, King’s College London) [slides] [video]
11:45 – 12:30 – Better IPv6 Operational Outcomes through Network Design (Ed Horley, Groupware Technology) [slides] [video]
12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 – IPv6 @ FB: From the NIC to the Edge (Mikel Jimenez, Facebook) [slides] [video]
14:15 – 14:45 – IPv6 Multihoming from the IETF perspective (Eric Vyncke, Cisco) [slides] [video]
14:45 – 15:15 – IPv6 Deployment at Cosmote Greece (Georgios Manousakis, Cosmote) [slides] [video]
15:15 – 15:45 – Tea and coffee break
15:45 – 16:15 – Why is IPv6 Security so hard? (Enno Rey, ERNW) [slides] [video]
16:15 – 16:30 – Experience from delivering IPv6 training courses and the usual “blockers” of IPv6 deployment (Dr. David Holder, Erion)
16:30 – 17:00 – Discussion with the audience about challenges to deploying IPv6 in small business and enterprises environments (Dr. David Holder, Veronika McKillop) [slides] [video]
17:00 – 17:15 – Closing
